Text::BibLaTeX

Text::BibLaTeX is a package for handling BibLaTeX files in a database like manner. It is a fork of BibTeX::Parser, a pure Perl BibTeX parser originally developed by Gerhard Gossen and later improved by Boris Veytsman. In this respect, it is similar to Gergory Ward's Text::BibTeX but without its complexity and drawbacks (most notably proper UTF-8 support).

Text::BibLaTeX::DB

The Text::BibLaTeX::DB package provides a somewhat 'database like' approach:

use Text::BibLaTeX::DB;

my $bibdb = Text::BibLaTeX::DB;
$bibdb->read($file);

while ( my $entry = $bibdb->next ) {
    ...
}

$bibdb->write;

On other words, Text::BibLaTeX::DB takes care of reading and writing the BibTeX database.

Note however that this is very simple, and since Text::BibLaTeX::Parser collapses strings and other fancy stuff in the BibTeX syntax, that is what will be written back to the BibTeX file.

Text::BibLaTeX::File

The Text::BibLaTeX::File package is a simple way of keeping track of JabRef file link fields.